She loathed him the second he walked through the door.
Too bad her heart, and hormones, had other plans.
When Elec, her brooding, tattooed stepbrother, moves in senior year, she expects attitude. What she doesn’t expect is the slow, infuriating pull of attraction that builds between insults and eye rolls.
He’s trouble, and he knows it. But just when things explode between them, he vanishes back to California without a word. Years pass. Hearts harden. Then tragedy drags him back, and he’s no longer the boy she remembers.
He’s hotter, darker, and even more off-limits than before.
Old feelings resurface, and unresolved tension simmers. But some scars don’t fade, and some secrets can still shatter everything.
Can she resist the man who broke her once, or is her heart about to make the same mistake twice?